Jie Wei Zhou

Jie-Wei Zhou was born in Shanghai, Peoples Republic of China in 1962. He is an award-winning painter who now resides in the United States. Mr. Zhou was one of the few allowed to pursue a formal art education in China. Only 10 out of 1000 applicants were chosen.

He received a Bachelor of Arts degrees from Shanghai Normal Institute and a coveted Master of Fine Arts degree from the Shanghai Drama Institute. Having studied under great Russian and French Impressionists in China, Mr. Zhou has a superior level of artistic training and skill. His sense of color is superb.

He paints portraits and impressions of China in a realistic European style. Many of his paintings portray the tribal peoples of China, Mongolia and Tibet. In addition, his still life and Chinese landscape paintings are works produced with an intimate knowledge of the subject matter. Two of his favorite models are his wife Jin and his daughter Amy.

Mr. Zhou has participated in numerous successful shows and his art can be found in collections throughout the world.

The Giclée Process

Giclée (pronounced "zheeclay"), from the French for the "spraying of ink", is a computer generated print produced by the spraying of an image into fine art paper on canvas. This printing process can produce an amazing array of more than five million colors and results in a vibrancy and detail impossible to achieve with other printing methods.

Mr. Zhou uses an archival canvas and inks in the production of his prints. The canvas is triple coated to protect the print from ultra-violet rays and light. The artist hand-embellishes, signs, and assigns serial numbers to each Giclée. Each piece of art is individually produced so all prints are original Giclées.

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